🌊 Inside America’s Broken Immigration System

Wow, the deep-dive journalism just keeps coming daily from Roca... such a breath of fresh air vs the MSM and your Medicaid story is excellent (and as close to unbiased as one can reasonably get).

On Medicaid, beyond the fraud, waste, and abuse (which Medicaid is not the only Federal area suffering such inefficiency), it really just comes down to Sources (funding) and Uses (spending).  Regardless of party, the vast majority of people want to support our fellow Americans who can't help themselves, yet few of us want to help those who won't help themselves.

In virtually every area of US government spend (at all levels), demands are basically unlimited yet funding is (and always will be, by definition) finite.  Our two-party system means every tradeoff is essentially adversarial on the how and the what, yet the why (the intended outcome for citizens) is largely similar.  In some ways, it's a bit silly... but the outcomes are critical.

We must return to self-sufficiency for those that are capable of being so, as most Americans are, while being even more supportive of those citizens who can't be. 

If someone were to raise my taxes to increase support for those who can't be self-sufficient while paying down our debt, I'm all in.  My family and myself would dislike the personal impacts, but we'd be more than willing to chip in.

However, as is the case of the past several decades in the US, if my increased tax payments were offset by equal or much greater spending than each passing year, I would fight tooth-and-nail in every possible venue against any increases whatsoever... giving an alcoholic more booze has never been a recipe for success, yet here we are as a society.

So, if you were to guess how this plays out, regardless of party, where this will end up, what would you say?  I fear the likely outcome is, once again, inevitable.  Anyone interested in a legit third-party of scale in the US yet?

I’m probably going to offend some people, but here it goes. Absolutely get rid of Medicaid! But that’s not the real issue. It’s that people live on the system. We found out we are having our first child, and went to the Dr. and they freaked out that we don’t have insurance. I have insurance that my employer pays for but my wife (stay at home wife) does not. They said look into Medicaid so I did just for laughs and we are not eligible because I Could get insurance through my employer. (Which we really couldn’t afford anyways) We have always just paid the cash discount you can get from any medical expense we have run into but they gave us the price and it was ridiculous. We ended up finding a midwife and are going to have a home birth. But I digress, looking into that, I’m realizing that if I quit my job and got a very low paying job (or no job) and got on food stamps and Medicaid I’d probably be money ahead! It’s ridiculous how many people do that and don’t move on with life. I understand there are people that truly need food stamps and healthcare but revamp the system. Bring medical costs to a realistic price that people can pay cash for. Then you don’t need health insurance! Put time limits and more requirements on getting food stamps. Make incentives to get OFF of them not ON them! The issue is with the system. You have to fix that first. 

Millions of people depend on Medicaid, myself included.  I have insurance, but am 82 years old, have only Social Security to live on.Medicaid helps with the extra costs on prescriptions and the co-pays on insurance.  Without it I would be deep in debt.  My son had to retire early at age 62 due to physical disability.  He's worked hard all his life and the jobs  he's had have taken a toll on his body.  He cannot apply for Medicare for another 6 months.  He was denied Medicaid and now has no insurance.  I worked for 62 years through good times and bad, lost my husband to Alzheimers, have physical disabilities and depend on SS and Medicaid.  I'm sure there are many people in similar or worse conditions and without Medicaid would have no coverage at all.  Stop giving the money away to politicians and crooks like Elon and support the American people who put you in office.